Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 2
This is a list of selected October 2 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Thurgood Marshall -
National Flag of the Republic of Guinea
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St. Josemaría Escrivá
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Order in which European states ratified the Treaty of Lisbon -
Treaty of Lisbon campaign poster
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Announcement of the victory of Rio de Janeiro
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| International Day of Non-Violence; | stub |
| Gandhi Jayanti in India; | unreferenced stub |
| Fast of Gedalia (Judaism, 2011); | refimprove |
| 1187 – Ayyubid forces led by Saladin captured Jerusalem, prompting the Third Crusade. | multiple issues |
| 1263 – The armies of Norway and Scotland fought at the Battle of Largs, an inconclusive engagement near the present-day town of Largs in North Ayrshire. | Tagged with {{nofootnotes}} |
| 1967 – Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African-American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. | refimprove section |
| 1992 – In response to a prison riot, military police stormed the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil, killing at least 100 prisoners. | short, lots of trivia |
Eligible
- 1851 – The Pasilalinic-sympathetic compass, a contraption built to prove the belief that snails create a permanent telepathic link when they touch, was demonstrated but proved to be a fake.
- 1928 – Saint Josemaría Escrivá founded Opus Dei, a worldwide organization of lay members of the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1941 – World War II: Nazi German forces began Operation Typhoon, an all-out offensive against Moscow, starting the three-month long Battle of Moscow.
- 2005 – In American football, 103,467 paid fans at Mexico City's Estadio Azteca watched the Arizona Cardinals defeat the San Francisco 49ers, 31–14, the first-ever National Football League regular season game ever held outside the United States.
- 2006 – A gunman killed five Amish girls before committing suicide in a one-room schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, US.
- 2009 – The Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland was approved at the second attempt, permitting the state to ratify the European Union's Treaty of Lisbon.
October 2: Independence Day in Guinea (1958)
- 1535 – French explorer Jacques Cartier (pictured) sailed along the St. Lawrence River and reached the Iroquois fortified village Hochelaga on the island now known as Montreal.
- 1835 – Mexican dragoons dispatched to disarm settlers at Gonzales, Texas, encountered stiff resistance from a Texian militia in the Battle of Gonzales, the first armed engagement of the Texas Revolution.
- 1950 – Peanuts, the syndicated comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, featuring Charlie Brown and his pet Snoopy, was first published in major newspapers.
- 1968 – A peaceful student demonstration in the Tlatelolco area of Mexico City ended when army and police forces began firing into the crowd.
- 2009 – During the 121st Session of the International Olympic Committee, Rio de Janeiro was elected to be the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.